No. Think it through, the sources of the upper half are at a positive potential compared to ground and the lower at negative. With the resistor in the middle each half acts like a current source for the other.
What resistor? According to schematic posted by JC, those four in the middle are not even connected.
If they would, schematic would show dots connecting the respective lines - see my attachment.
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Wow you follow everything, thats the first thing I thought but Roy's circuit was all bipolar (makes a great RF diff-amp). I would have to carefully read the claims but as you say it might be expired.
JC asked what sets the current. Isn't it the middle resistor ?
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Yes, of course. With 2SK170V/2SJ74V it typically would be in the range 50-100 Ohm.
Except the sense of the gain is flipped, and you need the second half. Yet it does lead to it with a little work, I never thought the portion of the input that looks like a folded cascode buys you much.
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Please remember everyone, the CORE of this circuit is 40 years old.
It was derived from a 100% bipolar topology that was designed for Alembic Inc as a line driver in 1970. The second schematic, that I released prematurely, because of so many 'questions' has more to it and can be confusing, but the EXTRA tabs are for SERVO connections, both differential and common mode.
It was derived from a 100% bipolar topology that was designed for Alembic Inc as a line driver in 1970. The second schematic, that I released prematurely, because of so many 'questions' has more to it and can be confusing, but the EXTRA tabs are for SERVO connections, both differential and common mode.
The middle resistor is NOT necessary for the nominal operation of this circuit, but it does control the idling current for the first (and second) stage. The resistor can be made variable to adjust for different Idss jfets. The derivation of the value of a fixed resistor can be done graphically from the jfet Id-Vgs graphs that are commonly available.
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A slight modification of this core circuit was originally used for the Grateful Dead line drive modules for the Wall of Sound in 1973, later used in the line out modules of the Levinson JC-2 preamp. Pictured on the next input here is a slightly advanced version of the older GD and Levinson modules, first used in the Vendetta Research 2'd stage and now in Parasound power amps.
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